Hello, may I know where can we publish large number (>1k) of images that can be linked to Occurrence records which will be published to GBIF/OBIS? This question is being asked a lot in the marine/OBIS community. I personally also encounter dataset where the number of photos of specimens far exceeded Zenodo’s limit Zenodo FAQ - What are the size limitations of Zenodo?
Curious if anyone has the answer to this question please? Thanks a lot!
Dear @ymgan , we usually told our publishers that they can use Internet Archive, it is free and you can upload as many images/sounds/videos as you want, also there is no limit to the size of the media.
You can create a collection when the images are grouped Colección de Microorganismos de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - CMPUJ or in an individual profile INCIVA.
I know that you can also use Wikimedia and is free, but I do not have an experienci with ir or an example from our publishers, but maybe someone has experience with it and can share information.
Thank you so so much Esteban!! This is so helpful! I believe this is what we are looking for, I will try it out!!
@EstebanMH-SiB @ymgan This seems like a good solution, thanks for identifying it! It’s not clear if they mint persistent identifiers for the individual files, or the collections, of the things they archive. Do either of you know if that’s possible?
The persistent URI is for the file, thus dataset: Registro de varamientos de megafauna marina en Ecuador continental hast this archive.org item Varamientos Ecuador 2023 : Ministerio del Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive with 58 files and you can add more files latter to a item
Got it. Thanks @vechocho !
The limitations for Zenodo in size and file number are only per record. You can make a community and add all images to it as separate records, like this example with ca. 270k images we did as a pilot for the ICEDIG project years ago: Search Belgium Herbarium of Meise Botanic Garden
You can find more info on the process in this report: Digitisation infrastructure design for Zenodo. Deliverable D6.3
The tech specs and the python scripts used for these pilots are out of date by now. I believe GitHub - plazi/lycophron: Batch uploader to Zenodo is a more up to date tool.
Cautionary note here that the IA is battling serious litigation. As a result, the Biodiversity Heritage Library whose page scans have been in IA for decades, is exploring alternatives like AWS.
Thanks for the useful insights @dshorthouse and @MatDillen. We will explore Zenodo a little bit so we can recommend it to our publishers and keep an eye on IA hoping they continue working without much trouble, they have been a great resource so far!